Hello Michelle! If you can post a photo of the plant so we can all try to see if it is a plumeria.
I saw there is a cultivar called Plumeria 'Laguna Pink', maybe that is what your donor is referring to, the specific cultivar.

Oh, the photo is rather blurry...can you do a second photo upload, try to take a full shot of the plant, step back a bit, then zoom a bit for a closer shot of the trunk and some leaves again. Try to get just one plant from the lot you have so it is easier to take the photo then we can all see clearly.

Loquats (Eriobotrya japonica) grow in Austin, Texas quite easily. I think your location in Georgia would be even more to their liking. They produce fruit, but there it's usually left for the birds and squirrels. Do you know if the twelve plants you were given were grown from seeds or if they came from cuttings? I think producing Loquats via a cutting is difficult, but I'm not positive about that.

I am in Sarasota FL. Mine are babies, have not bloomed yet, but their parent tree is next door at my neighbor's. His tree fruits twice a year here, in March and again in November. The fruits are delicious, a little like a small apricot. But there is a lot of seed, compared to the amount of fruit of this particular variety. So the birds do get a lot of the fruit, and of course the seeds get 'distributed'.

Apart from the fruit, the tree is very nice, stays fairly small, maybe 15ft. tall and wide, with shiny dark leaves. The flowers are small and not terribly decorative but when the fruit is on the tree, the clusters of yellow/peach fruits are pretty.

Elaine

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I grow loquats here near Houston Texas. But I also grew up with one huge one in Canoga Park, Southern California. They are frost proof down to 2º. They are evergreen trees about 15-20 feet tall. Yes, they produce fruit.

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